Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW COPENHAGEN STREET
635-1/58/343 (South side)
10/05/73 Nos.7-23 (Odd)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
COPENHAGEN STREET
(South side)
Nos.7-21 (Odd))
(Formerly Listed as:
COPENHAGEN STREET
(South side)
No.23 (Odd))

GV II

9 terraced houses, no. 23 with shop. c. 1820s-1830s with C20
reconstructed mid-C19 shopfront to no. 23. Yellow and brown
stock bricks with banded stucco ground-floor; roofs obscured
by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan
with staircase. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each,
nos. 13-23 slightly projecting. Round-arched ground-floor
openings to no. 11; elliptical-arched doorways and
segmental-arched ground-floor sashes to nos. 13-21. Low steps
rise to entrance in right bay: doorway with fluted 1/4 column
jambs (nos. 7-9 with panelled pilasters & no. 21 with altered
jambs) carrying corniced-head, panelled door (C20 door to nos.
13-21), and rectangular overlight (nos. 7-9), patterned (nos.
11 & 19), curved and radial (no. 17), stucco (nos. 13-15) and
plain (no. 21) fanlights. Ground-floor 6/6 (nos. 7-13 & 17
with margin lights) and 1/1 C20 (no. 21) sashes; no. 23 with
shopfront with recessed central glazed door flanked by
projecting panelled bay windows each of 4 lights; pilasters
support curved fascia and cornice. Gauged-brick flat arches to
upper floors. 1st floor full-length 6/6 sashes with stucco
sill band and individual iron balconies (nos. 9 & 23 balconies
missing) with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion (nos. 7 & 17-19)
or trefoil and Gothic arch (nos. 11-15) pattern to iron
railings. 2nd floor 6/6 (nos. 7-15), 3/3 (nos. 17-19), 8/8
(no. 21) and 3/6(no. 23) sashes. Plain parapet with stone
coping; nos. 7-9 with wide stucco band. Attached cast iron
area railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3118583553

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581069

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)